It's 2027, two years since the Occupation began. America began this century as the mightiest power on earth... or so we thought. Our strength turned out to be fragile as glass.

It's hard enough just trying to stay alive to waste time or thought to history. But bit by bit, piece by piece, we've started to put it back together. Making sense of the moments that changed history, seeing the pattern emerge.

Like Kim Jong-il’s death in 2012. Or the final collapse of the US motor industry that same decade. The declaration of Martial Law across the mid-west in 2019. The flu epidemic of 2023 when our health service was already in ruins. The propaganda they dropped in the first weeks of the invasion...